The struggle to save the Soviet economy : Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR /

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For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreakin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, Chris (Research fellow) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2016.
Series:New Cold War history.
Subjects:
1986-1991
Perestroĭka.
Perestroïka.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Economic history
Economic policy
Perestroĭka
Perestroika
Vergleich
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Wirtschaftspolitik
Wirtschaftsreform
Soviet Union > Economic policy > 1986-1991.
Soviet Union > Economic conditions > History.
URSS > Politique économique > 1986-1991.
URSS > Conditions économiques > Histoire.
Soviet Union
China
Sowjetunion
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the view from Tiananmen
  • Asian pivot: the roots of Soviet economic reform
  • Take off or leap forward?: Soviet assessments of China after Mao
  • Gorbachev's gamble: interest group politics and perestroika
  • Soviet industry, Sichuan style: Gorbachev's enterprise reforms
  • A Soviet Shenzhen?: copying China's special economic zones
  • Of subsidies and sovkhozes: restructuring Soviet agriculture
  • Fiscal crisis, the Tiananmen option, and the dissolution of the USSR
  • Conclusion: paths not taken?

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